Avoiding WebAccess URL Problems in GroupWise 7.0 Upgrade

Problem

When upgrading from GroupWise 6.x to 7.0 you'll find that the WebAccess URL has changed from http://webaccessserver/servlet/webacc to http://webaccessserver/gw/webacc

For one of my customers this was a problem due to the fact that there were numerous references to the /servlet/webacc URL on their Intranet and we didn't have access to the source code to make the required changes to the web pages.

Solution

I opted to modify Apache2's configuration to make it rewrite the request to /servlet/webacc to /gw/webacc. The idea was to ensure that the initial URL could continue working, but that subsequent URL's should go to the proper /gw/webacc URL.

To do this, I modified httpd.conf with the following (at the end of the file):